Brazil Slide Series: Collection Favela, Slide No. 0023.

Selling lottery tickets and advertising for photos at the Praça da Sé in São Paulo. The informal sector provides numerous forms of employment as well as such services as money lending. Some people manage to develop creative means of survival in cities short of jobs in industry and the service sector; one third of the population earns 2 or less minimum monthly wages; the minimum monthly wage is set by the government and its value varies from $75 -$90, depending on inflation adjustments.